It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points

I have my students co-develop class policies, and they pretty much unanimously chose to ban AI in the class. There were a few questions about using Grammarly, but those were the only real exceptions any students expressed (and even then, we talked about alternatives to that and they were open to it)

I didn't get to watch it last night so I just sat down and looked at Zohran's acceptance speech Man So good. SO good. And the part about dismantling the conditions that facilitate the rise of despots?? Yes yes yes

It’s hard to believe but there was a cartoon about an immigrant mouse and it was seen as totally fine and not controversial and not woke because it was an aspirational and nice thing about America that people could come here and find a better life

"If Republicans want a return to political influence in America's dynamic economic and cultural powerhouses, they're going to have to learn how to appeal to the complex folkways of urban dwellers"

Just to note, there is a well documented connection between mass in-person protest and election outcomes. I'm looking forward to the academic papers analyzing No Kings in October and turnout today.

Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.

Lots of elections all over the place today. I'm headed out to vote NO on all proposed constitutional amendments in Texas. Yes, even the ones that sound good. I don't blame people for advocating yes votes on some, but no oversights, everything benefiting the rich--it's a no all the way down for me.

"You're already gonna win so why you walk'n around for?" "You gotta work every day for it! It's New York, ain't nothin done!" 💪💪💪💪

A few days after the presidential election one year ago, we went to Fordham Road in the Bronx. It was a little different last week.

i hope this is how you find out about dick cheney

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

And you know, I don't think the base is ready for it, either. The average hashtag resist person on here is just as cruel as a Trump voter, they just want the leopards to eat everyone in a red state even if 40% of those people voted for democrats and kids can't fuckin' vote at all.

I have watched this work locally. When things are going terribly and the local GOP abandons their people and the local dems show up with food pantries and stuff to help anyone who needs it. It bleeds through the noise. Sometimes it radicalizes them into our cause. But we get NO support down here.

mostly I feel this fails to understand how fundamentally most desk jobs are social jobs.

their plainly stated goal is to starve forty million people until they get what they want, which is to rip health care away from millions more that this is too monstrous for most news organizations to tell the truth about does not change the facts

Torontooooooooo. What a beauty

🧵Thread of cafes, restaurants, bars, bagel joints, etc offering free meals to SNAP recipients, for those who might need it, & so those who don't can give 'em their business. If you know of such offers in your area & don't see them here, please tell us in @'s. Here's one! toastedseattle.com

Please understand that people will not be "going without SNAP/EBT/food stamps" - people will be going without FOOD. Actually and literally.

Friendly reminder that The people who genuinely say "people abuse snap" "people don't deserve welfare" are repeating Hitler's "useless-eaters" rhetoric, and they want the poor and disabled to die.

The hunger police………….

My sustaining donor spiel: If you have a enough money to keep forgetting to unsubscribe to something, I highly recommend becoming a sustaining donor at the food bank (or other org) of your choice.

We’ve already seen quite a few examples of ICE agents trying to kidnap someone and eventually giving up and running away because a crowd had gathered and shouted them down. That’s EFFECTIVE.

as an English professor, I’d go as far to say these days I’m excited to see typos & fragments & run on sentences & page-long paragraphs & awkward word choices & any imperfection that suggests a human being sat down to do the very hard thing of writing a college paper.

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

Liberals when candidates defend trans people: "We can't do this, it's too unpopular." Liberals when candidates have a nazi ss tattoo: "it's ok, not all candidates are perfect." Do y'all hear yourselves?!

NEW: Cardinal Blase Cupich, the Archbishop of Chicago, has issued a new statement declaring that Chicago "communities are shaken by immigration raids and detentions. These actions wound the soul of our city. Let me be clear. The Church stands with migrants."

What's more 200+ Chicago-area clergy — Protestants, Catholics, and evangelicals — have signed a letter decrying ICE's efforts and voicing a willingness to put their "bodies on the line" for migrants, saying, "What Kristi Noem and her ICE agents are doing is immoral." religionnews.com/2025/10/21/a...

4 grounding questions [if useful at this moment]: 1. What resources exist so I can better educate myself [about x issue]? 2. Who's already doing work around this injustice? 3. Do I have the capacity to offer concrete support & help to them? 4. How can I be constructive?

I'm just a simple country doctor, but maybe it was a bad idea to outsource so much of higher ed's infrastructure to private companies' proprietary technologies with single points of failure.

To different audiences, Audre Lorde would note that she was doing her work and then ask, "Are you doing yours?" I love it. We've all got work to do. No exporting or taking on all the responsibility.

The definition of “viewpoint diversity” that figures like this promote implies *censorship* (the “must” part): curbing some forms of expression to boost others. It’s an invention of orgs who advocate government censorship of teaching/research + restrictions on protected political speech in colleges.

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Political parties must shift immediately and dramatically to the left to avoid alienating these frustrated and abandoned young women. Am I doing this right?

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

My Chemical Romance Queen Jack's Mannequin Stray Kids Kesha Lady Gaga Bruce Springsteen Linkin Park Bonus: XLOV (although they only have a few songs out but I'm obsessed)

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

I don't think folks have any conception of how radicalized a lot of moms are becoming as they go through shit like "will my babysitter get kidnapped" and "will my child be able to get the measles vaccine"

Something maybe worth noting is that all the frog costumes and signs and good-natured memeing came about because a wide spectrum of Americans saw someone in direct, brave confrontation with ICE—getting pepperballed and standing their ground—and thought “that’s awesome. That person is a hero”

Exactly. Remember the MOOC? Also, the same managers who INSISTED that EVERYBODY MUST BE IN PERSON when COVID lockdowns started to lift are now singing this song about why nobody needs genuine human interaction. Neat, huh?

Downtown Portland has some new art at 5th and Washington🐸 👀 Click the link to read more about Portland's Protest Frog: www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

i don't have the words to emphasise how seriously bad things are gonna get

The use of AI to marionette a woman whose tortured existence was spent trying to carve her own life and identity out of the space men forced her into is both damningly macabre and a surprisingly perfect encapsulation of the problems with this ghoulish use of technology.

Very sad to have published this obituary tonight, but tried to do her legacy justice Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Stonewall Veteran and Legendary Trans Activist, Has Died at 78 www.them.us/story/miss-m...

New article out this month on how doctors become fascists. 50% of German physicians joined the Nazi Party––twice the proportion of any other profession. US doctors today are arguably the most conservative in the world, and we're heading along a similar path. drive.google.com/file/d/1CAk9...

This is exactly right. Academic freedom and autonomy SERVE states and their residents, which is why we have public universities in the the first place. The White House is attempting to hijack them. It’s anti-democratic and anti-federalism.

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

You can save yourself a lot of time by never arguing with people who don't protest *ever* about protest. Keep it moving and reclaim your time.